Where is Les Miles coaching in 2017? Well, he’s on TV instead.

Good question! This fall, he’ll be on TV covering college football.

His first assignment was working the alternate coaches broadcast of Ohio State-Indiana. He got up at one point to wander around with a hot mic, because he’s Les Miles.

His second is serving as a guest analyst with the SEC Network’s morning pregame show, SEC Nation, leading up to the No. 11 Michigan vs. No. 17 Florida matchup in Arlington, Texas.

After that, he’ll join FOX Sports for some broadcasts later in the season.

SEC Nation will air live on Saturday, Sept. 2, in a special three-hour edition from 9 a.m. ET. Miles will be joined by SEC Nation’s Laura Rutledge, Tim Tebow, Paul Finebaum, and Marcus Spears. It will be interesting to see Miles in his new role away from the sidelines alongside a few pundits. Lots of people have wanted Miles, an entertaining and erratic speaker, to take a TV gig for a long time.

Surprisingly, after a 114-34 overall record at LSU, along with a national championship in 2007, nope. He was a candidate for the vacant Houston job last December ...

Lane Kiffin, also being courted by LSU to join Ed Orgeron’s staff as offensive coordinator, will meet with Houston Sunday. Also under heavy consideration are interim head coach Todd Orlando, offensive coordinator Major Applewhite, former LSU head coach Les Miles, and Oklahoma offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley.

Multiple sources have also confirmed to SB Nation that Alabama head coach Nick Saban is actively promoting Kiffin to Houston, ostensibly to keep his OC from jumping to a division rival next season.

... but that job ended up being taken by an in-house candidate, Applewhite. Miles was replaced at LSU by his interim coach, Ed Orgeron.

I think we all would love to see him eating grass on the sidelines again.

For now, though, we’ll take as much of him talking college football on TV as we can get.

Also, it seems like his live tweets of non-football sporting events are back.